Rebalancing and the Chinese VAT: Some numerical simulation results

China Economic Review

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 316-324

  Li, Chunding ^a   Whalley, John ^b,c,d,e  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE INNOVATION   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Destination basis; Numerical simulation; Origin basis; Value added tax

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862809696     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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